大陆青年左颂星(周星驰)到港投靠三叔(吴孟达),嗜赌的三叔发现他有特异功能后,以为找到发家致富的康庄大道,开始带他出入各大赌场,并要他以赌神为偶像,将赌技再发扬光大成为新一代赌圣。rn风头正劲的左颂星引起台湾赌王陈松与香港赌王洪光(秦沛)的注意,双方均欲夺左颂星为其手下代表其出席世界赌王大赛。陈松成功将左颂星罗至门下后,洪光派来美女绮梦(张敏)将左颂星迷得晕头转向,又在大赛决赛时刻令绮梦消失,以期左颂星无心应战将赌王宝座拱手相让。
A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge. What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.
迈克·李的第一部长片聚焦于一位名叫西尔维亚的年轻女人,她与她智力发育迟缓的姐姐住在伦敦南部西诺伍德的郊区。正在交往的男友沉默寡言又极度羞涩,新搬进她家地下室的一个年轻人也因自己的教育背景而颇为自卑,她关系最好的同事则沉陷自己家庭的危机之中。所有的欲望都无法自由表达,西尔维亚陷入了折磨的痛苦中。